32nd St, Santa Monica

32nd St, Santa Monica

At 4,400 square feet, this home in Sunset Park had the potential to overwhelm its site. In an effort to be a conscientious neighbor, the second floor is stepped back from much of the first floor footprint. To emphasize the lot size and create opportunities for indoor/outdoor living we used an oversized multi panel door with a post-less interior corner. The post-less corner emphasized the interior street, created by stacking the circulation on the first and second floors.

Sunset Park, Santa Monica

Sunset Park, Santa Monica

At 3200 SF, this new home on 32nd St. makes the most of a narrow lot. Privacy and articulation are the primary concerns at the first floor street elevation. The side-approach entry reduces the distance to daylight upon entering the house. This reduction of distance to the exterior makes the occupants more connected to the surrounding landscape. An office acts as an oculus at the street façade, offsetting the communal spaces that dominate the first floor. The open plan, exaggerated island, and oversized multi-slide doors create connection to the pool. The wood & glass staircase transitions to the second floor, features a communal stopping point at the upper landing, and unpackages the sleeping areas of the home. Upstairs features a glass-walled master suite that opens large sliding doors as a “Juliet” balcony to the ocean breeze and the pool below. The master bath features a “wet room” style shower and tub layout and his/hers sinks. Completed in 2017.

Barman II

Barman II

Barman II is a 2200 SF major remodel and addition for a repeat client that pays homage to the minimal Mid-Century designs of yesterday. This one-story addition to an existing house features many custom and unique qualities on the inside without being too imposing on the outside. It has a seamless connection from Entry and Dining Room through the Kitchen and Living Room, eventually leading to the outdoor patio. Skylights and clean lines brighten up the central heart of the home and the circulation essentially becomes integrated to the core. The sunken living room with a higher ceiling plane provides a warm intimate area to gather and leads out to an equally intimate patio. The Master Bedroom suite features a bright Master Bathroom, an exposed, polished concrete finish, and is organized in a way to also provide a private connection to the backyard. Completed in 2017.

Allaseba Drive Home

Allaseba Drive Home

A ground-up home on Mar Vista Hill, this two-story residence for a repeat client sits on a 9,200 SF lot. As a part of the modern farmhouse typology, this 4,000 SF home provided opportunity for vaulted ceilings, custom lighting, and finishes including reclaimed wood, board-and-batten, standing metal seam roofing, and more. Generously-sized sliding glass doors provide a smooth connection to the outdoors from the living room, family room, and convertible office/guest room. The master bedroom connects as well to the outdoors via its own private balcony. The backyard offers firepit and trellised outdoor dining areas.

Warren Avenue House

Warren Avenue House

The home on Warren is a major remodel and second-story expansion creating a two-story 3,400 SF home on a 6,000 SF lot on Mar Vista Hill. The dramatic first floor entry swings into an open floor plan which still implies a formal living room and convertible den/office with its own full bathroom. The back faces a split grass and wood deck yard space with custom barbecue and seating. The second floor features include partial views of the ocean and of the LMU bluffs and three bedrooms with sweeping angled ceilings receiving broad natural daylight. The master bedroom has his-and-hers sinks and large tiled wet-room shower with a soaking tub and accordion doors out to a sunny balcony.

House on Selby Ave

House on Selby Ave

Selby is a new home for a new client in the West L.A. / Rancho Park area. At just over 3,440 S.F., the home utilizes a variety of siding styles and orientations to evoke movement to the static boxes that comprise the exterior.
WATCH THE VIDEO

31st Street

31st Street

At 3200 square feet, this new 2 story home for a repeat client on 31st St. in Santa Monica has a clean interior feel within a Cape Cod exterior. The house connects its inhabitants to light and the outside while maintaining a traditional, inviting sense inside.

Gwen

Gwen

Located in Hollywood, Gwen is the latest restaurant by famed chef Curtis Stone and his brother, Luke. Owing its name to a grandmother of the brothers, Gwen utilizes a large double-height space as a focal point around which the butcher shop, kitchen, bar, and the upstairs barrel-vaulted wine cave dining room revolve. Working with the creative team at Home Design, Hamilton Architects negotiated normal city approvals plus the consent of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources.

Westbound

Westbound

A new food and drink establishment in the ultra-modern One Santa Fe building, Westbound differentiates itself by looking back to the golden age of rail travel. At nearly 2,000 S.F. Hamilton Architects (with creative input by Studio Collective) creates a warm and intimate destination in an oversized housing block.

Mar Vista Hill Traditional

Mar Vista Hill Traditional

Our traditional clients wanted a “to the studs” remodel of their 1940’s single story stucco box to be elegant and modern. We left all but a wall and created this 2 story classic home. The minimal palette combined with elegant architecture gives the home a stately but modern feel.

Lantern House On Nowita

Lantern House On Nowita

Located in Venice, California in close proximity to the budding silicon beach. The double height punctured box, that faces the street, is thought of as a lantern. It provides the living area with ample natural light and views out to the front yard and the street while maintaining the privacy of its residents. The slick modern form of the house is complimented with the use of a warm material palette which lends the house its cozy and intimate feel. This house is 2,900SF with 5 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. Completed in 2015

Barman Coombs House

Barman Coombs House

The Barman house is centrally located in the heart of Culver City, adjacent to veteran’s park. This home develops its character from its signature two story entry. The basic idea utilizes a large volume to bisect the house so as to protect the family areas on the first floor from public view and subtlety separate the kids from the parents on the second. In all aspects, the two story entry and catwalk is the central design element. Intricate facade articulation adds to the animated building design. This house is 4,750SF with 5 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. Completed in 2014

Westside Village Home

Westside Village Home

The home on Tilden Ave. in Los Angeles’s Westside Village is another evocative step in the Hamilton Architects “stacked boxes” design theme. A major remodel of a 1950’s stucco box, the new plan saves the best elements of the old including the front yard’s tree and the logically placed garage. It incorporated those components in a compelling composition of material and volume. Completed 2016, Total Area: 3,200 SF

House on Rosewood

House on Rosewood

Rosewood is a major remodel of an old stucco box. Located close to the iconic Venice high school, the complete rebuild of the building was designed to take advantage of the existing home and the reworked landscape. Rosewood was completed in Late 2015.

Hanjip

Hanjip

Hanjip Restaurant is the result of a collaboration between Stephane Bombet (Viviane, Faith and Flower, Picca) and Chris Oh (Seoul Sausage Company, and winner of TV’s Knife Fight and Cutthroat Kitchen).
Opened in late 2015. Listed on several food blogs as one of LA’s hottest restaurants.

Pizzanista

Pizzanista

Pizzanista!! Long Beach is the second outlet of the popular Los Angeles Pizza joint owned by a well-known art curator and her pro skateboarder partner. This project allowed us to take a former restaurant housed in a 1910 Craftsman and bring it into the 21st Century.

Malibu Vista #2

Malibu Vista #2

Tuna Canyon House

Tuna Canyon House

Nowita House # 1

Nowita House # 1

Malibu Vista #1

Malibu Vista #1

House on Madison

House on Madison

Located on the end of a cul-de-sac in Culver City, is the remodeled home on Madison. Developed for a repeat client, this home utilized a strong and straight forward design idea: Free the rear yard by converting the yard adjacent garage to living area, put the garage on the street, and lastly make the street facade so impactful that the existing remaining (and inauspicious) residence goes largely unnoticed. The house is 4,440SF with 5 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. Completed in 2013

Terrine

Terrine

Terrine is a remodel of an existing restaurant, on Beverly Boulevard, for the well-known and successful Bombet Hospitality Group. Hamilton Architects helped to refocus the restaurant in terms of back-of-house functionality and to showcase the celebrity chef, Chris Morningstar. This restaurant is approximately 2,900SF with a capacity of 81 occupants, and a full bar. Completed in 2014

Stella Barra

Stella Barra

Adjacent to the iconic Cinerama Dome, Stella Barra, Hollywood is the west coast flagship for Lettuce Entertain Your Enterprises, Inc. and Jeff Mahin. The restaurant maximizes its footprint by minimizing the back of house. The intimate nature of Stella Barra, despite its size and location, on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Ivar Avenue, is primarily due to the reduction of transparent surface area on its perimeter. This opaqueness is contrasted by the large roll-up door at the restaurant’s apex. This restaurant is approximately 4,420SF with a capacity of 158 occupants, and a full bar. Completed in 2014

Sirena

Sirena

A rebranding & remodel of an existing restaurant, Sirena is a collaboration between Hamilton Architects and the prolific designer, Fred Sutherland. With an unblinking focus on the existing iconic patio courtyard and a natural affinity for ocean fantasy, Hamilton + Sutherland create a whimsical interior that also houses a large wood burning pizza oven and a crystalline refrigerated wine case. This restaurant is approximately 2,900SF with a capacity of 81 occupants, and a full bar. Completed in 2012

Pussy & Pooch

Pussy & Pooch

A 12,000 s.f. emporium for animal lovers in Beverly Hills, CA. The extensive remodel of the former Fred Sands offices on Cannon and little Santa Monica Blvd. required a change of use, and major modifications to the existing bow trussed roof building. The unique program of spaces included doggie training areas, a dog restaurant, and cat aquarium, and more generalized retail.

GC Marketplace

GC Marketplace

In a historically significant building, Hamilton Architects (with Twenty Four/Seven Design)created a home for Gary Arabia’s ambitious intersection of market, restaurant, coffee shop, and wine bar. By recycling the beautiful and rare lamella structure roof and the vintage signage, the foundation of the flexible space was set. Hamilton Architects work included entitlement processing for both the change of use and the alcohol purveying approval. The market place is approximately 3,800SF with an occupancy of 94 persons, and a beer & wine license. Completed in 2014.

Delicious Pizza

Delicious Pizza

A solid, neighborhood pizza place was the focus for Fred Sutherland and business partner, Mike Ross. Utilizing an abandoned building in west Adams and iconic pizza parlor imagery, Hamilton Architects (with the prolific restaurant designer, Sutherland) created an urban oasis for good pizza. Hamilton Architects’ responsibilities included CUB & ABC. The space is about 1,800SF, with a capacity of 20 occupants, and a beer & wine license. Completed in 2013